Trying to transfer songs from PC to Mac using home sharing.

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Trying to transfer songs from PC to Mac using home sharing.

I just bought a new Mac and am trying to get my songs from the PC to the Mac. I managed to transfer the songs using Home Sharing, but, when I tried to add the songs to my Library in iTunes, any songs that were not purchased on iTunes (burned from a CD, etc) are greyed out, will not play, will not delete. What gives? Is Apple trying to make me buy my entire library on iTunes?

I'm trying to get these songs to my Mac so I can wipe the music on my iPhone (which was linked to my PC) and manage the music on my Mac. It doesn't seem I'm able to do that either. Does this have something to do with the PC.

THANKS!

MacBook Pro

Posted on Jan 28, 2013 3:50 AM

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Jan 28, 2013 3:58 AM in response to bit_o_honee3

When using home sharing you must use the same Apple ID on both machines. It does not mattter what apple id the machine uses to login to iTunes with.

Then you can click on the orange house icon in Shared in the left sidebar of itunes. Select what to import and click import at the bottom right

This is a useful article

http://www.macworld.com/article/1146958/move_itunes_windows_mac.html

or this one

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527

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